IBM Cloud Object Storage Alternatives (January 2026)

IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance cloud data storage service on IBM Cloud.

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) provides industry-leading scalability.Fully managed object storage service to store and access any amount of data from anywhere.

Object Storage Service (OBS) provides secure, stable, and virtually infinite scalable object storage. You can store massive amounts of data on OBS.

Object Storage reliably and securely stores any type of data in its native format. It is ideal for building modern applications that require scale and flexibility, and is often used for data consolidation, analytic data lakes, backup, and archive.

S3-compatible object storage by Gcore. Get the opportunity to store and retrieve any amount of data at any time.

IBM Cloud File Storage is flash-backed, durable and fast NFS-based cloud data storage on IBM Cloud.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.

IBM Cloudant is a fully managed JSON document database that offers independent serverless scaling of provisioned throughput capacity and storage. Cloudant is compatible with Apache CouchDB and accessible through a simple to use HTTPS API for web, mobile, and IoT applications.